Franco Maresco Movies

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...

Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 2017. Twenty-five years after the murders of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone, on May 23, 1992, and Paolo Borsellino, on...

The Italian duo Ciprì & Maresco, known to be cynical deconstructionists, weave a fascinating film around memories of a decadent Sicily. Ruins,...

An evocation of work and the frantic activity of factories through the contrast provide by images of desolation, ruin, and abandonment. Among these,...

Set in apocalyptic Palermo peopled by ignorant, inbred, flatulent gluttons and deformed Mafiosi, a dark comedy which centers on a poor family of...

An avant-garde short filmed in striking black and white, with legendary US director Samuel Fuller playing himself in a surreal setting.

A grotesque tribute to Silvio Berlusconi following his 1994 entry into Italian politics.

“Being born in Palermo is a kind of punishment, but I’ve never left because it would feel like betrayal. Moreover, I can’t imagine...